[email protected] on Jerusalem decision: "[@POTUS] strongly believes that those final statuses should be decided between the Palestinians and the Israelis. No outside group should decide what the final status looks like."

UNICEF: 137 children, aged between 7 months to 17 years need immediate evacuation from besieged rebel held East Ghouta for conditions that include kidney failure, severe malnutrition and conflict wounds

Haley says Jerusalem decision now tells Israel and Palestinians: "Okay, you decide how you want to split up Jerusalem. You decide if you're going to create boundaries or borders there." And let them decide."

"The sky is not falling," says @nikkihaley of outcries against Pres Trump's Jerusalem decision. On @FaceTheNation, Haley said "If anything, what we're going to see is both sides are going to come to the table."

Lebanon Security Forces used teargas and water cannons to disperse participants in a demonstration outside the US embassy in Beirut in protest at US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has reduced the flight warning over Iraq to 26,000 feet and that will allow American and US-registered aircrafts to fly over Iraqi airspace again after the fight against ISIS has officially ended.

[email protected] on addressing the Jerusalem issue at the UN Security Council: I want the Security Council and all the international community to understand that when you bully Israel, you are not helping the peace process.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley: "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel whatever is East Jerusalem or any other part, that's between the Palestinians and the Israelis. That's not for the Americans to decide"

A Chinese Long March 3B launch is expected from Xichang in a few hours (~16:35 UTC/11:35 ET) carrying AlcomSat-1 to GEO for Algeria. Long March 3B is set to launch Chang'e-4, a pioneering mission to land on lunar far side, in Dec 2018, so issue-free launches required.

Egypt's President Sisi calls Palestinian Authority President Abbas to discuss latest developments in Jerusalem and other occupied Palestinian Territories, and means to support the rights of Palestinians in accordance with UNSC's resolutions

Hekmatyar tells Taliban should start dialogue with Afghanistan gov't rather than asking for dialogue with the U.S. He says Afghans should solve problems themselves as there is no logic to seek foreigners' intervention in own problems

General / Sadaki Sobhy, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Minister of Defense and Military Production, meets with commanders, officers, non-commissioned officers, military personnel and soldiers of the southern military region

It is an honor for me to inaugurate this project today in this province. Herat and Badghis are the provinces which can provide wind electricity in the future. Badghis should have a transit future: Ghani

KCNA: "The status of Kuds remains so sensitive that it, for sure, should be solved fairly by means of regaining the national rights of the Palestinian people and striking a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Middle East problem."

KCNA: "The decision by U.S. president Trump to recognize Kuds as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy there well deserves a global condemnation and rejection as it is an open defiance of and an insult to the international legitimacy."

Arab Movement in Kirkuk Province, Iraq: there are still some ISIS fighters remaining in SW Kirkuk Province that need to be defeated. ISIS fighters are preventing displaced persons from returning to their homes.

French Foreign Minister said SDF supported by the International Coalition defeated IS, freed 40% of Syria and controlled 60% of the country's oil resources. He pointed out there were about 500 French IS still in Iraq/Syria asserting "Their return to France is very difficult"

Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II has turned down a meeting with US VP Pence when he visits Cairo this month over the Jerusalem decision, which the Coptic church said in a statement "did not take into regard the feelings of millions of" Arabs

Russian Mindef: F-22 allegedly deployed decoy flares and air brakes with permanent maneuvering this simulating and air battle. After the appearance of RuAF Su-35, USAF F-22 retreated into the Iraq airspace.

Afghan NDS discovered a big cache of ammunition belonged to Taliban in Parwan province. The NDS says the militants wanted to use the ammunition to attack Bagram Airfield and carry out subversive activities in Kabul, Parwan and Kapisa provinces.

Hamid Qaderi, member of the family whose 10 members were murdered in Kabul on Friday night, claims that 12 members of his family were murdered in the homicide case. He claims the suspect was jailed for murder charges but was released from police custody

USS James E. Williams departs the BlackSea: Arleigh Burke-class, Norfolk-bound, AEGIS guided missile destroyer DDG95 transits Bosphorus towards Med for the last weeks of its deployment to the 5th and 6th fleet areas of operation. DDG95 is not part of a larger strike group.

[email protected]: Russian/Syrian aircraft crossed deconfliction line into coalition airspace east of the Euphrates River 6-8 times a day in late November, "the greatest concern is that we could shoot down a Russian aircraft because its actions are seen as a threat" to coalition forces

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